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  • USA Today Returns to Starbucks


    Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 12:27pm

    USA Today has returned to Starbucks after 10 years of the New York Times being the only national paper available in the chain's outlets.

    "Starbucks positioned its new openness as an effort to better serve its customers, who've come to expect more choices in media throughout their days," reports Advertising Age.

    • Dan Mitchell has written for the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Wired.

  • Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 11:00am

    from SlateAIG may be the only three-letter, four-letter word in the English language. The company ran into huge problems by selling insurance on financial assets without setting aside reserves to pay out claims.

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    Surprise! AIG Is Paying Back a Lot of Its Debts.

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  • Stream Room March 15, 2010: When Netflix Wishes Upon a Starz


    Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:55am

    You can still stream your favorite Disney movies on Netflix. One of the great secrets to Netflix’s success has been how it obtains some of the movies it streams. They don’t come straight from the movie studio, they arrive via the subscription cable channels that air the movies on TV.

  • Google China Shutdown All but Inevitable


    Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:18am

    As talks between Google (GOOG) and China drag into their final stages, it appears that both the company and the government are preparing for the day when Google is simply out of China for good.

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    Google China Shutdown All but Inevitable

    • Chris Thompson is a writer living in Brooklyn.

  • Monday Tune-Up


    Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 9:42am

    Runaway Prius ... a big fat hoax? (Jalopnik)

    So buy Toyota and save America, says Robert Wright. (NYT)

    I’m piecing it together from Twitter here, but evidently the Chevy Volt and the Local Motors Rally Fight had fun at South by Southwest. (@ChevyVoltage)

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    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.

  • Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 8:07am
    Illustration by Kyle T. Webster

    Michael Lewis' new book, The Big Short, is released today, and it's the latest bravura effort from the financial journalist.

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    An Assessment of Michael Lewis, Our Country's Money Laureate

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    Illustration by Kyle T. Webster

  • Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:29am
    Dice by Stockbyte/Getty Images.

    Excerpted from The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis. Copyright © 2010 by Michael Lewis. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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    • Michael Lewis is a Bloomberg columnist and author, most recently, of The Big Short.
    Dice by Stockbyte/Getty Images.

  • Health Care Rancor Is Poisoning Financial-Reform Efforts


    Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 - 6:32am

    Chris Dodd will introduce the Senate Banking Committee’s financial reform bill today. The New York Times walks us through the provisions, which include attempts to limit the influence of Wall Street on the New York Federal Reserve (including banning bank presidents from the board), and a consumer-protection agency will set rules for financial products like credit cards and mortgages. The bill also extends the Fed’s reach to interconnected, nonbank financial companies.

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    The Health Care Debate is Killing Financial Reform

    • Kelly Faircloth is a writer who lives in New York.

  • How To Get a $22 Million Bonus


    Posted Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 7:33am

    The first step is to work for one of the world’s best-known bosses, in this case Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs.

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  • Bentley Brings You Brilliant Colour Created by Wizards and Elves


    Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 - 9:04pm

    In my ongoing series about how a Bentley Mulsanne, the uber-luxurious automobile, is turned into a Bentley Mulsanne at the company’s famous plant/workshop in Crewe, England, I bring you: The Paint Job.

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    • Matthew DeBord has written about the auto industry for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Huffington Post. Follow him on Twitter.